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Olaus O.C. Wold's 1897 Patent

(Click on the picture below to see the full size patent drawing. I've cleaned them up and converted them to the .GIF format. WARNING, they are 80kb+ files and are a slow download but worth it. Opens in a new window!)

Wold's 1897 patent, assigned to Thayer & Chandler, is for an airbrush that uses a trigger that slides fore and aft to control both the air and paint. He claims ease of use and better control at the finer range of the spray pattern. The most important idea to come out of this airbrush is that the paint is isolated from the trigger assembly. The paint sits in its own trough ahead of the trigger; no more messy trigger to clean.

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